LUCKY by Zachary Aborizk
Lucky
By Zachary Aborizk
It is raining as it usually does around four p.m. in Florida. The humidity in the air is frustrating to say the...
FOR THE COST OF A STEAK DINNER by Randy McIntosh
For the cost of a steak dinner
By Randy McIntosh
“I love a good steak,” the old man held up his fork with a cut piece...
BEING GOOD by L.A. Robbins
Being Good
by LA Robbins
‘I am going to kiss you so hard you’ll never forget it,’ Rod announces as I leave his yard to go...
THE SLOW BREAKUP by Melody Sinclair
The Slow Breakup
Kelly’s SUV is packed with seventh-grade boys going to their first school dance. Their bodies reek of too much competing cologne, a chemical stench that barely...
THE CONVERSATION by Zach Murphy
“How do you want to die?“
“Is that a threat?”
“I mean, like. . . If you could choose, which way would you prefer to die?”
TRIGER WARNING TRIGER WARNING by David Leys
“So was Lucy there tonight?”
I was driving Finn home from Irish dancing.
“No, she says she’s not doing it any more,” he said. “Ever.”
THE EMERGENT IMMIGRANT by Ivanka Fear
“Vince, are you alright?” cried Jure, running toward his brother.
Minutes before, all had been as usual. Every day Vince, Jure, Danica, and Katarina walked the road from...
VIRAL BIRTHDAY by Mohamed Mahou
Tamri village, situated behind the Atlas Mountains, had been under the lockdown for three months and a day. Before the probable announcement of its lifting, the cat stood up; her ears were...
ISABELLA OR PENELOPE by Edward Sheehy
Cassandra’s Unisex Hair Salon and Psychic Palm Advisory occupied 700 primo square feet in a renovated strip mall fronting Columbia Pike just minutes from the Pentagon and a nine iron shot across...
BLESSED ARE THE CURSED by Bryan Grafton
“Magda, Magda dear have you made up your mind yet?” asked the social worker. “These people deserve an answer.”
She hated her name, a name from the old...